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Understanding the effects of child sexual abuse: feminist revolutions in theory, research and practice
- Author:
- WARNER Sam
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 285p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book aims to contribute to the ongoing development of a knowledge base for those working with abused women and girls, drawing on feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine current ways of understanding woman, girls and child sexual abuse in psychology, psychiatry, the mass media and by radical feminist and mental health activists.
Understanding child sexual abuse: making the tactics visible
- Author:
- WARNER Sam
- Publisher:
- Handsell
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 104p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
Demonstrates how the tactics used by abusers to control children construct particular versions of reality that give rise to particular understandings of experience and identity that ultimately disable individuals who have been abused. The aim of this book is to make the practices of abuse visible so that different versions of experience, can be developed in order to provide the conditions in which people may be enabled to live more fulfilling lives The aim of the book is to locate the 'problem' of child sexual abuse in relationships and to challenge way of understanding the effects of child sexual abuse that construct abused people as the problem themselves. When we stop viewing abused people as the 'problem' the we can begin to see that the things they do have meaning, rather than being symptoms of mental disorder.
Understanding sexual abuse: making the tactics visible
- Author:
- WARNER Sam
- Publisher:
- Handsell
- Publication year:
- 2000
Coping with their lives women, learning disabilities, self-harm and the secure unit: a Q-methodological study
- Authors:
- JAMES Melissa, WARNER Sam
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(3), September 2005, pp.120-127.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Deliberate self-harm represents a significant, yet it can be argued, a poorly theorized area of concern with respect to women who have learning disabilities particularly in the context of secure service provision. Utilizing ideas from social constructionism the authors explore how some ways of understanding dominate the professional literature and, thereby, restrict how such women can be understood. In order to identify how women with learning disabilities who self-harm are understood a Q-methodological study was conducted with patients and professionals in a medium secure unit. Six distinct accounts of why women self-harm emerged. These accounts emphasized that self-harming behaviour is meaningful and that women with learning disabilities are understood to have complex needs and a range of strategies for coping with these. The study, therefore, suggests that when working with such women consideration should be given to how they understand and manage their experiences, cognitions and emotions.